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California Institute of the Arts

Brian Evenson

Pronouns: School of Critical Studies

Faculty, Creative Writing

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Email address: bevenson@calarts.edu
Phone number: (661) 554-0782 x6201
Office address:
E132
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
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Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen and a half books of fiction, most recently the story collections The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell (Coffee House Press, 2021) and None of You Shall Be Spared (Weird House Press, 2023),  and the Weird West micro-collection Black Bark (Black Shuck Press, 2023).  

His collection Song for the Unraveling of the World (Coffee House Press, 2019) won the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculaitve Fiction. Previous books have won the American Library Association’s RUSA Prize and the International Horror Guild Award, and have been finalists for the Edgar Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. 

He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, David B., and others. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes, an NEA fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Berlin Prize. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.